Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel wrote his famous book Night for many reasons. He mainly wrote so that people will know what actually happened during the Holocaust. He wrote it for his family members that died in the Holocaust. He felt that God let him survive so that he could tell his story. This book was also written so that people will not forget the Holocaust and the horrible memories that it holds. When he told his story to the book publisher the publisher said that he has never heard a story more heartbreaking. When writing he also thought that maybe he wrote it as to not go mad or to go mad. He felt that books have a destiny just like people. Some books invite sorrow, some invite joy and some both. Elie wanted people to realize the heartbreak that he endured so that maybe it could prevent something like this from happening in the future.
Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search
Night Web Search
Background Information for the Holocaust
Use the following websites for a quick overview of the following terms and people. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/
Topics to Know
Questions
Answers
Nazi Propaganda
Who is Joseph Goebbels?
List three things the Nazis did to ensure that their views were shown/heard in the most persuasive manner possible.
Joseph Goebbels was appointed by Hitler to be the head propaganda. Goebbels worked with the SS and the Gestapo. He also set up the Reich Chamber of Commerce in 1933 and organized many book burnings in Germany
Kristallnacht/ The Final Solution/ Wannsee Conference
“The Night of Broken Glass” when and untold number of Jewish synagogues shops and homes were burned and the windows were broken. They also damaged Jewish schools homes hospitals, and cemeteries. Hitler and other high ranker German officials and officers made the Final Solution. Final Solution was to exterminate all Jews
The Victims
Besides the Jewish people, list seven other groups were also targets/victims of the Holocaust?
Briefly tell the fate of each group under Nazi rule.
Closed ghettos, open ghettos, and destruction ghettos. The purpose was to segregate the certain types of people. Lodz, Krakow, Bialystok, Lvov, Lublin, Vilna, Kovno, Czestochowa, and Minsk
The difference between the labor camps and the death camps is that the death camps are used primarily for mass murder and the labor camps were made to force u to do labor.
The conditions were horrible and people died of exhaustion, starvation, and exposure.
Different types of extermination were gas chambers and shooting.
He told his camp guards to try and burn the body bodies.
24 German officers were charged to represent a cross-section of German diplomatic, economic, political, and military leadership.
They said that “following orders” wasn’t a legitimate defense.
Assignment 3: Images of Night Barrack Barrack Old and Black Squeaking, breaking, and darkening Like a black blanket and as cold as a harsh winter breeze My life becoming a quick flash of lighting Swallowing With bear claws as sharp nails
Table of Contents
Veronica B. Night Assignments
Assignment 1: Reasons for Writing
Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel wrote his famous book Night for many reasons. He mainly wrote so that people will know what actually happened during the Holocaust. He wrote it for his family members that died in the Holocaust. He felt that God let him survive so that he could tell his story. This book was also written so that people will not forget the Holocaust and the horrible memories that it holds. When he told his story to the book publisher the publisher said that he has never heard a story more heartbreaking. When writing he also thought that maybe he wrote it as to not go mad or to go mad. He felt that books have a destiny just like people. Some books invite sorrow, some invite joy and some both. Elie wanted people to realize the heartbreak that he endured so that maybe it could prevent something like this from happening in the future.
Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search
Night Web Search
Background Information for the Holocaust
Use the following websites for a quick overview of the following terms and people.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/
List three things the Nazis did to ensure that their views were shown/heard in the most persuasive manner possible.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/propaganda_in_nazi_germany.htm
Wannsee Conference
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/kristallnacht/
Who attended and what was decided at the Wannsee Conference?
What was the Final Solution?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005477
Briefly tell the fate of each group under Nazi rule.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007457
CLUE: Begin reading at “Targeted Groups”
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005059
What was life like in the ghettos?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007445
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005144
What were the conditions?
What different types of extermination were performed?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005145
The conditions were horrible and people died of exhaustion, starvation, and exposure.
Different types of extermination were gas chambers and shooting.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005131
What did Hitler do near the end of the war?
How many defendants were charged during the Nuremberg Trials? What did they represent?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007143
What did the International Military Tribunal decide was not a legitimate defense?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007142
He told his camp guards to try and burn the body bodies.
24 German officers were charged to represent a cross-section of German diplomatic, economic, political, and military leadership.
They said that “following orders” wasn’t a legitimate defense.
Assignment 3: Images of Night
Barrack
Barrack
Old and Black
Squeaking, breaking, and darkening
Like a black blanket and as cold as a harsh winter breeze
My life becoming a quick flash of lighting
Swallowing
With bear claws as sharp nails